Nabokov would waive his NTC if asked, Marleau willing to give up captaincy for the cause

My “exile” continues, but the Merc did have the appetite for more hockey coverage this week and my colleague Mark Emmons stepped up. His fine story, which will appear in the Sunday edition and looks at what the Sharks have and have not done this off-season, addresses a number of hot topics that have come up in debates here over the past two months.

With his blessing — and, shamelessly, to drive a little more traffic to the Merc web site — here are two highlighted excerpts that you’ll find in the paper tomorrow, or once the story gets posted online tonight.

****Both Evgeni Nabokov and Patrick Marleau say they have not been asked by Wilson to drop the no-trade clauses in their contracts. But Nabokov said he would if the GM requested it.

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“If the organization wants me to leave, I will leave,” Nabokov said. “I would never stay with an organization that didn’t want me.”

****Marleau, who has been a lightning rod for criticism, said he and GM Doug Wilson have talked about whether he should remain the team’s captain.

“We’ve discussed some things and I’m waiting to see how that unfolds,” he said. “But I’ve told Doug that I’m willing to do whatever it takes to get this team to the next level.”

Good stuff, I know. Let me add that I also talked with Wilson recently about the captaincy and he said that he would have a signficant voice in how that situation plays out. I asked him if that was different than in the past and Wilson said it definitely was.

Mark also spent time with the GM, but I won’t get into that part of the story here so there will still be some fresh material when you check out the full article.

But here at WTC, we do have some bonus coverage — quotes from Wilson, Marleau and Nabokov that didn’t make it into the print edition, but may offer insights into how Wilson, Marleau and Nabokov see the current state of affairs. Mark graciously passes those along, so without further delay:

*Wilson on Kent Huskins:

“Kent is a Rob Scuderi-type player. Nobody really knew Scuderi before this year.”

*Wilson on why he doesn’t think it’s the end of the world because big changes haven’t been made yet:

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“We didn’t get Joe Thornton on July 1. We’ve done two of the biggest deals in the league in the last five years with Thornton and (Dan) Boyle. We got fair contracts on both of them. We kept our powder dry because we knew they were specific players we wanted. It took us a year-and-a-half to get Joe Thornton and well over a year to get Danny Boyle. You want to get the right people for the right contract.”

*Wilson on the strength of the system and prospects coming up:

“Absolutely the kids will be given an opportunity at training camp. It’s exactly the same way (Torrey) Mitchell, (Devin) Setoguchi, (Marc-Edouard) Vlasic and (Joe) Pavelski made their mark. We expect others to do the same thing.”

*Wilson on whether he needed to have a conversation with Nabokov to explain his thinking after the failed effort to sign Swedish free agent goalie Jonas Gustavsson:

“I don’t have to have a conversation with anyone.”

Wilson on what fans may be thinking right now:

“I love the passion of it and I want people to care about our hockey team. Sports are an escape from the economic realities of the world, so I understand if fans don’t want to understand how the cap works and what’s coming in 2010. But we have a plan and change doesn’t take place on Day One. I understand the emotional roller-coaster and the passion. It’s great for fans to have that. But we have to do our business in the right way.”

*Marleau on lingering frustration over the way the season ended:

“You can’t really dwell on it or it will bite you in the butt again. It’s probably taken longer for someone like myself to get over it than others. But we should all turn it into a motivating factor. We all should be training hard right now.”

*Marleau on what he thinks might happen as far as changes:

“It’s up to Doug. All a player has to do is worry about preparing himself for training camp. That’s our job and he’s got his job. It’s interesting to see what happens and how it unfolds. But if I’m worrying about that, it’s a waste of energy and not too productive.”

*Nabokov on if this playoff loss was the most painful:

“A lot of people have been talking about how this was the toughest year. But to me, the last four years have sucked. Whenever you lose, you’re down and upset. It’s the same feeling because Doug has built a team with high expectations. It just sucks. But at some point, you have to move on.”

David Pollak

David Pollak has been following the NHL forever and at the Mercury News as an editor or reporter since 1987. For almost a decade he wrote about the Sharks as the paper's Fan in the Stands before joining the sports department in 2001. He became the Sharks beat writer before the 2007-08 season and began this blog at that time. You can also follow him on Twitter at @PollakOnSharks.

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